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Edith's Streets

This blog records notes about London (and Greater London) streets - what the buildings are, what the background is. These pages have been compiled over many years and from many sources - its not intended to copy from other people's work.Each post represents a square on the Ordnance Survey grid -and the vast majority of information is culled from map based source material - Ordnance Survey, A/Z, etc.

On some inner city squares only a quarter of each square is done because of the volume of material involved

Please add your comments and corrections - I am sure there are lots of mistakes - and my idea is to build up a correct record interactively

Red- it is (hopefully) there nowBlue - its interesting but its goneNo colour, same as the text - don't know. needs to be verified

River Brent - Greenford - Elthorne Heights

With its adjacent roads this area was
laid out before the Great War.Called Elthorne
Heights, it was built 1923/4 by the Great Western Land Company, selling four
bed houses for £1,000

Brent
Valley Golf course

The golf course opened 1910 on land
owned by Rector Glasse. The club had been
founded in 1909 and the course was designed by J.H. Taylor. In 1938, Ealing
Council bought the course to preserve it from being developed and leased it to
the Club as a public course. In 1966 the old clubhouse, called the “Dublin
House” was demolished, the present one built and the course was remodeled. It is
now run by private contractor, MyTime Active.

High
Lane

Mayfield Primary School

Recreation Ground

Greenford
Road

Recreation
Ground, playground on the corner of Stanhope Road,

Ealing Council depot

Baba Whadbhag Singh Trust. This is a
Sikh organisation

Bus depot

Studland
Road

Laid out by developers before the First
World War and street around developed after that.

Windmill
Lane

Recalls a 16th windmill

Windmill Nursery and Children’s Centre

Greenford Park Cemetery opened 1902 and
laid
out with a grid of paths leading to a brick chapel. It was built as a private
cemetery, taken over by Greenford Council. There are sine ornamental trees as
well as horse chestnut, sycamore, Lombardy poplar and willow. In 2001 a new
garden of rest was laid out near the entrance, which has a central lawn, seating,
a pergolas, and palms. Nearby is a building with lion bird sculpture on the
wall with a trellis. There is also a children's section with a pond surrounded and
a sculpture of a dolphin.

White Hart pub. Built in 1908 and now
demolished having been burnt down

Greenford
Park. Built on area of common land called
Upper and Lower Town Fields.Much of the
area belonged to the Marnham family but the fields were bequeathed for charity
in 1710.